Classic war film.

Rating: 9/10 (6 November 1998)

This is the only film I have ever recorded off TV and kept. Kept even after moving house a half dozen times, kept even when I've not got a blank tape anywhere in the house to record something on.
This is a big movie. Big stars, big shots, big script. Anything dealing with D-day has to be. And though it is gung-ho in places, you still get to see the truth behind the invasion of France by the allies: it was almost lost on the first day. It cost lives. People died. And that, for me, makes it a war film which puts it all in perspective.